Part C - Approach
- 1. Context for Project Part C Part Description Focus Part A Individual Essay You will research human-nature relationships and sustainability. You will argue for a definition of sustainability that speaks to your interests, values, and the context of your argument What is meant by sustainability? How does our attitude to nature affect outcomes for sustainability? Part B Team Report You will work as a team to critically analyse the human-environment relationships of a typical day in the life of a diverse range of people to determine if sustainability is facilitated or hindered. What are the consequences of our daily actions? How do norms affect how we satsify our needs? Identify an area where an intervention could occur. Part C Recommend-ation You will consolidate your learning by drawing upon the theory discussed in this subject, to propose an intervention by which the human-environment relationships carried out in typical daily activities can assist your community’s move towards Design an intervention that will help move towards sustainability. Consider existing norms and how norms may need to change for this 2014s2
- 2. Getting started Read through the task description: •What are the key words? •What sections are required to be included? •What connections are there to the previous parts of the project?
- 3. What are the key words? What is meant by build? Is this repeating your work, making reference to your work, or something else?
- 4. What are the key words? What is meant by build? Is this repeating your work, making reference to your work, or something else? What is an intervention? How is it different from an action?
- 5. What are the key words? What is meant by build? Is this repeating your work, making reference to your work, or something else? What is an intervention? How is it different from an aWchtiaotn d?id your team find out? How will you link in to this data?
- 6. What are the key words? What is meant by build? Is this repeating your work, making reference to your work, or something else? What is an intervention? How is it different from an aWchtiaotn d?id your team find out? How will you link in to this data? How will you discuss the role of norms? What norms shape the human environment relationship?
- 7. What are the key words? What is meant by build? Is this repeating your work, making reference to your work, or something else? What is an intervention? How is it different from an aWchtiaotn d?id your team find out? How will you link in to this data? How will you discuss the role of norms? What norms shape the human environment relationship? What is a typical daily activity?
- 8. What are the key words? What is meant by build? Is this repeating your work, making reference to your work, or something else? What is an intervention? How is it different from an aWchtiaotn d?id your team find out? How will you link in to this data? How will you discuss the role of norms? What norms shape the human environment relationship? What is a typical daily activity? What is your community?
- 9. What are the key words? Where will you record your responses to these questions? When will you look at them again? What is meant by build? Is this repeating your work, making reference to your work, or something else? What is an intervention? How is it different from an aWchtiaotn d?id your team find out? How will you link in to this data? How will you discuss the role of norms? What norms shape the human environment relationship? What is a typical daily activity? What is your community?
- 10. Connections to Parts A & B Part A
- 11. Connections to Parts A & B Part A Part B
- 12. Connections to Parts A & B Part A Part B Make sure you make clear these connections. These must all be cited correctly, eg: Wong, Baker and Schmidt (2014) identified excessive water use amongst college students as a norm which currently hinders sustainability.
- 13. Review the assessment guidelines Read through each criterion Make notes in each section in your report template of things you must include, or the quality / depth required •What evidence is required? •What system components should you include? For complexity and ethics •How will you make it clear to the assessor which 2 concepts you are discussing?
- 14. Read the advice provided Add relevant notes in each section in your report template
- 15. Developing your intervention 1. Identify several actions from Part B that would be appropriate for an intervention?
- 16. Developing your intervention 1. Identify several actions from Part B that would be appropriate for an intervention? 2. Think of a range of interventions that could be implemented to address the existing issues •Remember that some actions involve multiple parts and that you only need to cover one that is either behavioural, technological or policy!
- 17. Developing your intervention 1. Identify several actions from Part B that would be appropriate for an intervention? 2. Think of a range of interventions that could be implemented to address the existing issues •Remember that some actions involve multiple parts and that you only need to cover one that is either behavioural, technological or policy! 3. Evaluate your possible interventions to find which one has the most significant impact
- 18. Developing your intervention 1. Identify several actions from Part B that would be appropriate for an intervention? 2. Think of a range of interventions that could be implemented to address the existing issues •Remember that some actions involve multiple parts and that you only need to cover one that is either behavioural, technological or policy! 3. Evaluate your possible interventions to find which one has the most significant impact 4. Research your chosen intervention to make sure that there is evidence from the academic literature to support your claims.
- 19. Review template If you have recorded your responses to the previous questions, you should now have a template for your report that includes all of the required components of the task. Good to review your template now so that you can see what is required and if you have left anything out. Think about how your choice of intervention may affect your ability to provide quality responses to each section: •Does it enable you to discuss ethics and complexity? •Is there evidence from the academic literature that it will work? •Can you easily relate it to norms? •How does it link to your definition of sustainability?
- 20. Things to consider November is a long way away, but: •don’t leave it too late to get started •You won’t have access to your tutors after the final week of tutes Attending lectures and tutorials will help with •understanding complexity and ethics •providing advice on how to complete this task Can you personally enact this intervention today? •if so, why not do this now? •if not, what else from your day-to-day actions can you change to help your community move towards sustainability? •The pelicans and other wildlife will be grateful to you ©Glenn Ehmke